Finding Places in the Past: Whats in a Name

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Finding Places in the Past Whats in a Name?
Lex Berman China Historical GIS Center for
Geographic Analysis, Harvard
PACSL - Philadelphia - Nov 2005
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Khunjerab Khunjirap
(pass)
(gap)
Khunjrab
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Kashgar Kashigaer Kashi
(Sinkiang)
(Xinjiang, China)
Kashghar
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(China)
(China)
Peking Pekin Pei-ping Nanjing Dadu Yanjing Khabal
ik Shuntianfu
Beijing
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(China)
(Peoples Republic of China) (Republic of China)
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(Zhonghua renmin gongheguo) (Zhongguo) (Peoples
Republic of China) (PRC)
(China)
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Broader Term Narrower Term Related Term
USE FOR
USE
Related Term PartOf Xinjiang
Broader Term Physiographic Features
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gaps
defiles passes
one
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digital gazetteer
placename feature type footprint valid
date source note
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admin unit, populated place, natural feature,
religious site, archaeological site, trade route,
place where an event occurred, etc
placename
feature type
city, village, mountain, temple, ruin, trade
route, etc
footprint
latitude and longitude for each feature
valid date
date or range of time for which this record is
valid
source note
citation of data source, commentary on feature
core elements of a digital gazetteer
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alternate spellings / names administrative
context temporal sequence
entry
related entry
type
related type
feature type thesaurus interoperability
differentiating identical placenames differentiati
ng footprints
disambiguation
coordinate x, y pair in decimal degrees bounding
box generic grid reference spatial object in GIS
format
related footprint
functionality of a digital gazetteer
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subject San Ta Temple place Dali, Yunnan date
2001
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Zhongguo fosizhi zongkan (Fosizhi)
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page from Yitongzhi
Da Qing yitongzhi (Yitongzhi)
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Chugoku no jiin (Yajima Index)
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Comparison of contents - Yitongzhi Yajima
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georeferencing temple records, Yajima sites
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georeferencing temple records, CHGIS tables
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georeferencing temple records, map view
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density of temples at each location
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desirable metadata
placename feature type footprint valid
date source note
street names, complete addresses, building names,
parcel or open space names, natural feature
names Alexandria Digital Library Feature Type
Thesaurus coordinates, bounding box, generic
grid reference valid date (be careful of
format!) citations are often lacking
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China Historical GIS Project
website www.fas.harvard.edu/chgis